Ben Weingart
When Ben Weingart passed away in 1980, alone in a hospital, at age 92, his obituary in the LA Times described him as “one of the least-known and most influential…
Food For Thought #3: Los Al restaurants – On the Boulevard
After two posts on the restaurants of Rossmoor, (Rossmoor Center food here, Rossmoor Village here) we now move “outside the walls” to take a look at the many restaurants of…
Food for Thought #2: Rossmoor Village
For a tiny area, we have had a lot of restaurants over the years. I started compiling a list on a whim and help from locals on the Facebook Rossmoor…
Food for Thought, Part I: Rossmoor Center
This is the first in a series of posts about all the places to eat around here over the years. The development of the Rossmoor Shopping center is an interesting…
Theaters in Rossmoor
Technically, the first documented dedicated movie theater in the Los Alamitos-Rossmoor area was the Fox Theater which opened up in the Rossmoor Business Center in July 1964. I did, however,…
McDonald’s: Reopening eagerly anticipated now, but in 1971 it was unwelcome in Los Al
After a short time down for some remodeling, the Los Alamitos McDonald’s restaurant will be reopening next week, according to an article at Shelley Henderson’s OC Breeze website. What is…
Business in early Los Alamitos – 1896 to 1956
Most of the first merchants in Los Alamitos were saloon keepers. And many not of the best reputation. These men catered to the hard-working railroad track layers and the teamsters…
1973 – Los Al: City Finding a New Economic Identity
reprinted from the February 2, 1973 Anaheim Bulletin (Editor’s Note: The following article is one of a series reviewing the accomplishments of cities in North Orange County during 1972, and…
Businesses in 1950s Los Alamitos
This can be kind of misleading, because newspapers at the time considered Los Alamitos to extend east to Miller(Valley View) and South to at least Garden Grove Boulevard. remember this…
March 1967 – Seal Beach annexes the Rossmoor Center
You’d have to be a hermit or living jn the Bin Laden compound to be oblivious to the recent John Moorlach inspired local conversation about Rossmoor, Los Alamitos, and Seal…